Ubuntu Manpage: gotwebd — Game of Trees Git FastCGI repository server for web browsers

NAME

     gotwebd — Game of Trees Git FastCGI repository server for web browsers

SYNOPSIS

     gotwebd [-dnv] [-D macro=value] [-f file]

DESCRIPTION

gotwebd is a FastCGI server program which can display the contents of Git repositories via a
web browser. The program has been designed to work out of the box with the httpd(8) web
server.

gotwebd provides the following options:

-D macro=value
Define macro to be set to value. Overrides the definition of macro in the
configuration file.

-d Do not daemonize. Send log output to stderr.

-f file Set the path to the configuration file. If not specified, the file
/etc/gotwebd.conf will be used.

-n Parse the configuration file, report errors if any, and exit.

-v Verbose mode. Verbosity increases if this option is used multiple times.

Enabling gotwebd requires the following steps:

1. The httpd.conf(5) configuration file must be adjusted to run gotwebd as a FastCGI
helper program. The EXAMPLES section below contains an appropriate configuration file
sample.

2. httpd(8) must be enabled and started:

# rcctl enable httpd
# rcctl start httpd

3. Optionally, the run-time behaviour of gotwebd can be configured via the gotwebd.conf(5)
configuration file.

4. Git repositories must be created at a suitable location inside the web server's
chroot(2) environment. These repositories should not be writable by the user ID shared
between gotwebd and httpd(8). The default location for repositories published by
gotwebd is /var/www/got/public.

5. Git repositories served by gotwebd should be kept up-to-date with a mechanism such as
got fetch, git-fetch(1), or rsync(1), scheduled by cron(8).

FILES

     /etc/gotwebd.conf     Default location of the gotwebd.conf(5) configuration file.
     /var/www/got/public/  Default location for Git repositories served by gotwebd.  This
                           location can be adjusted in the gotwebd.conf(5) configuration file.
     /var/www/bin/gotwebd/
                           Directory containing statically linked got(1) helper programs which
                           are run by gotwebd to read Git repositories.
     /var/www/htdocs/gotwebd/
                           Directory containing HTML, CSS, and image files used by gotwebd.
     /tmp/                 Directory for temporary files created by gotwebd.

EXAMPLES

     Example configuration for httpd.conf(5):

             types { include "/usr/share/misc/mime.types" }

             # one gotwebd reachable at http://gotweb1.example.com/
             server "gotweb1.example.com" {
                   listen on * port 80
                   root "/htdocs/gotwebd"
                   location "/" {
                         fastcgi socket "/run/gotweb.sock"
                   }
             }

             # hosting multiple gotwebd instances on the same HTTP server:
             # http://gotweb2.example.com/gotwebd-unix/
             # http://gotweb2.example.com/gotwebd-tcp/
             server "gotweb2.example.com" {
                   listen on * port 80
                   location "/gotwebd-unix/" {
                         fastcgi socket "/run/gotweb.sock"
                   }
                   location "/gotwebd-unix/*" {
                          root "/htdocs/gotwebd"
                          request strip 1
                   }
                   location "/gotwebd-tcp/" {
                         fastcgi socket tcp 127.0.0.1 9000
                   }
                   location "/gotwebd-tcp/*" {
                          root "/htdocs/gotwebd"
                          request strip 1
                   }
             }

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